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I will. I was thinking of getting it painted and having extra water bottle braze-ons added and building it up again. I do love that bike. You certainly will be welcome to use it any time when I finish that project.

I love the design of the frame, geometry and graphics. The frame, crankset and wheels make it feel stiff laterally, can't sense any flex at all during out-of-saddle climbs or sprints. Some things that could be better are the welds, the drivetrain is louder than my steel bikes (think it's the aluminum) and the aluminum is thin-walled. I have a dent on the top tube from barswing. This bike definitely catches people's eyes, it's gotten catcalls on M street a couple of times. The Mash SSCX is sweet, I think you should get it. Definitely.

I'm on it, boss. Will report back once I've successfully completed my mission.

It's been getting a bit too cold for father-daughter rides so I jettisoned the child seat for now, and put on my spare wheels. Amazing how much nicer the bike looks when it doesn't have 32 spoke wheels with reflectors. I do have a spare dropbar laying around too so it probably wouldn't be too hard to actually convert this into a "SS CX". The frame fits up to 32s, maybe 33s. Only issue is the frame is a bit too big for me. I can shorten the reach with a different stem but I don't want it to be too twitchy either.

It's been getting a bit too cold for father-daughter rides so I jettisoned the child seat for now, and put on my spare wheels. Amazing how much nicer the bike looks when it doesn't have 32 spoke wheels with reflectors. I do have a spare dropbar laying around too so it probably wouldn't be too hard to actually convert this into a "SS CX". The frame fits up to 32s, maybe 33s. Only issue is the frame is a bit too big for me. I can shorten the reach with a different stem but I don't want it to be too twitchy either.

i always get the itch to tinker, what are you missing in your fleet? methinks a singlespeed or fixed gear.

I'm constantly tinkering. I moved a quite few doodads around over the last few days - as well as un-babying the hybrid, I have my road bike on my trainer (and who wants to waste a Gatorskin on that), and I restored my 26" MTB to closer to its original build (rode it yesterday).